The Americans / By an American in London.

  • Calvin Colton
Date:
1833
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Americans / By an American in London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    review. We can only make a few extracts, some general references, and record our general im- pressions. We will take them separately. First, Captain Hall. We have already exhibited this gentle- man in what may distinctly and emphatically be called his airs. This peculiarity as a general attribute, constantly recurring, and thus making a host of the same set of features, under their various forms, has seemed to us so striking and so impressive, that a hint of them in this place is perhaps quite sufficient. That affectation (shall we call it ?) of high, and noble, and disinterested purpose, in going to America—that pompous parade of chivalrous intent — that apparently grave and serious plan of reconciling the two nations, and making them feel better towards each other — when compared with the course actually pursued, is so glaring—that one can hardly look at it in such light, without a feeling bordering on contempt. If the gentle- man, when recording these pretensions, had also added his confession :—f I am in sport —it would have been in good keeping with the sequel. As it is, however, it is sufficiently in order with his characteristic airs.
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